Pretend your D&D campaign became the basis for the next D&D movie. Describe, in brief, your campaign world and its main plot. Then list your player's characters and who you'd pick to play them in the movie. If you want, you can also list who you'd want to score the feature, what the title would be and who directs it (try not to pick Joss Whedon).
Here is mine:
Title: The Rising
Campaign: The gods have been destroyed. A new, evil demigod has come to power in their absence and is enforcing a new tyrannical rule. In a desert kingdom called Ra-Theris (similar to Ancient Egypt), several heroes find out that they are connected to an ancient ancestral tribe, whose very blood was touched by the old gods. With the hope of finding special artifacts that will allow them to wield godly might, the heroes set out on a quest to protect their world from this new demigod, and to perhaps become the new gods themselves!
Director: Ridley Scott
Musical Score: Michael Giacchino, with additional tracks by Wardruna
Starring Cast:
Haelis - Rami Malek (Elven Druid who hates to waste time)
Ophidiusss - Michael Shannon (Snake humanoid War Cleric, known to fly into drunken rages often)
Sarish - Olivia Munn (Human Fighter, a heavy hitter that over-extends the party's invitation to help others)
Slash - John Cena (Human Ranger with the remnants of an angel's soul in him, who can wield its waning divine power)
Teren - Alexander Skarsgård (An arrogant Elf Sorcerer who loves to set fire to his enemies)
Gramrig - Ewan McGregor (NPC Dwarf Fighter from a kingdom and clan that's fallen into shambles, he fights to regain his clans unity and power)
Stazar - Lee Pace (NPC Illithid Wizard, member of a secret order of time traveling wizards, trying to assist the party against the demigod threat)
What a fun Idea, Kinda reminds me of the Podcast I run.
Lets see, My favorite campaign I ran as a movie:
Title: Unwritten Rules
Plot: Reality is unwinding centered around a focal point in the southlands. The adventurers are sent to see if they can stop the source.
Gryph: Patton Oswalt (Human Illusionist) Tavain: Joseph Gordon Levitt (Elven Rogue) Douglas: Jason Clarke (Human Cleric) Alynn: Laura Prepon (Half-Elf Ranger)
And Andy Serkis as Orcus. Cause why the **** not.
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Check out my podcast! What, you had something better to do? Have you ever heard something interesting and thought "How have they not made a movie about this yet?" Well, so have we.
Title: The Avarice Stone part 1 - Visions of the Past
I'm a player in this campaign, and it is still going on, hence the naming choice. As for plot; In search of power, a man discovers a conflict older than the kingdoms themselves. Together his group of adventurers must find a way to stop this war and it's ancient powers before they begin anew - or take the powers for themselves.
Hiei Anatolia: Brendan Frasier (human sorcerer) His family name was dragged through the dirt when it was discovered that his rich and famous parents were liars and cheats. Now he seeks power enough to prove to the world that he is better than his name.
Erebir Stormlight: Hugh Jackman (human fighter) Goes by Atlas. A sailor, hired by Hiei to find a Dragon that would bestow power to him. Gruff, doesn't say much. Has been searching for years for his family that was taken by slavers.
Zhogar Redscale: Andy Serkis (dragonborn rogue) Goes by Red. This scholar turned his studies in a direction that his clan did not like. So he resorted to sneaking and skulking to find out all of the clan's hidden knowledge. He was kicked out of his clan, but not after learning their powerful secrets. He and Atlas were hired by Hiei to guide him, to find a Dragon. Little do Hiei and Atlas know the real reason for Red coming...
Kethra Amakir: Kate Winslet (elven paladin) Originally tasked with watching the group to make sure they did not cause trouble in her small town, she eventually joined them. With a high distrust for magic and a mysterious past, Kethra often raises philosophical dilemmas for Hiei. Who's side are they on? What is good, and what is bad? Is there ever anything truly as binary as good and evil?
I had to keep the Andy Serkis bit going!
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I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?
My campaign is currently in progress, and I have big plans for the future, also it would be difficult because one of my players is playing a homebrew bloodborne hunter, and they encountered dark souls gods in the beginning. So copyright non withstanding, here we go. I will just jump in to my future planned arc so I can skip the scattered stuff up till now. Also super brief summary.
Title: War of Attrition and Destruction
Campaign: The exarch of Bane has been gathering armies and recruiting powerful beasts and is trying to destabilize a continent and cause an all consuming war. During the final battle, the war has cused enough strife that it unintentionally awakens the Tarrasque, causing an apocalypse of the world. (And setting up for a lower magic, grittier campaign next time :D)
Director: Peter Jackson
Musical score: lord of the rings mixed with war of the worlds
Cast: Nolan North: Claude Eichen: Wood Elf Hunter of Hunters Ronda Rousey: Laura Corwynt: Human Cleric of Kord Dante Basco: The voice of Ricochet: Warforged Gunslinger Mathew Mercer: Bane Mike Myers: Voice of Asharax Hammerscale, (not part of party, but general of allied army) Dragonborn Fighter-Barbarian
Title: The Tempest Arcana, volume 1, The Mourning After.
World: Eberron. The campaign began in a tavern in Sharn, The City of Towers, on Rememberance Day, 4 years after The Day of Mourning, when the Nation of Cyre, once known as the Jewel of Galifar, was destroyed in an Eldritch conflagration known as The Mourning. The characters share stories of how they met, which we played as flash back adventures. Most of them involved witnessing the Mourning, as here is only 1 character who didn't witness it up close.
One flashback, and parts of the adventure after, used a heavily modified version of the Mark of Prophecy adventure from the back of the 4e Eberron Campaign Guide.
Those flashbacks done, we proceeded to the Remembrance ceremony in the Upper Menthis district of Sharn. The party was invited to join Brenn ir'Gadden in the balcony, with the fancy people, as 4 of them had saved his life on the Day of Mourning. Midway through the ceremony, a Mourning-infused demon and some "mourn-wolves" showed up and attacked, leading to a battle on the rooftops and balconies, and then a chase through, on, and around the roofs, stairways, alcoves, and foot bridges of Upper Menthis, and then to the party split up. One group continued to pursue what seemed to be the second person they had saved 4 years ago in the ruined tower, while the other backtracked the trail of the monsters who had attacked them, eventually leading to Aric Blacktree's townhome, in the lower level of the Menthis Plateau.
The pursuit team were aboard a "requisitioned" sky taxi, while Aric flew upon a "sky-sled", a blue disc that is essentially a speed and manueverabikty upgraded Tensor's Floating Disk. Soon, he was joined by a band of Goblin and hobgoblin mercenaries, mostly archers, who flanked the sky taxi and peppered it with arrows.
As the sky team fought and pursued their prey, who began flinging sickly orange beams of energy from his Aberrant Dragonmarked hand, the other team investigated the townhouse, unraveling two arcane lock traps, and then finally discovering a Giantish device, which Inigo recognized from an expedition he had led a year before into Giant ruins in Xen'Drik. The device had something to do with creating doors between worlds, and there had been evidence it had killed the Giants who had created it. Upstairs, Ocathim had discovered the pin board wall of a mad man. Drawings of the four who had been at the tower 4 years before, of the Prophecy Mark they'd found there, of other Prophecy marks, schematics, string pinned to the wall tieing one thing to another in a spiderweb of weirdness.
And many, many, books. But here was no time.
Cutting back and forth, we see the sky team taking sky sleds form goblins to better attack Aric, as the whole fight weaves through the tangle of towers, spires, chimneys, bridges, and other obstacles. Vidanya eventually catches up to Aric, stabs him in the leg, and catches a full chest Dragonmark blast. Both seem set to fall to probable death. Back in the town home. The other team struggles to decipher the codes, schematics, and arcane sigils of the device in time to stop it. Just as Vidanya and Aric are caught by the sky taxi, the device is shut down, and the Menthis Plateau is safe again.
Production team: Vin Diesel's company and Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Kieth Baker and Jose Whedon, maybe Neil Gaiman
Director: Brian Fuller
music: Cowboy Bebop meets Jessica Jones. Jazz and blues influence, touches of Noir, 30's Pulp, with a fantastical edge.
Cast:
First, the friendly NPCs, the first two of whom are occasional DMPC's
Inigo Amur, Halfling Ranger, Plane Walker, with Talenta mother, Cyran father, raised on the plains and in Metrol. Rides a dinosaur, throws a boomerang, fights in melee with a light glaive style weapon. Indiana Jones type relic hunter. Actor: Avan Jogia
Khalid Al Ghurab (more a DMPC than the others, started as a PC before I relaunched a lapsed campaign consisting of him, Ocathim, and Vidanya): Shadar-kai Monk, former slave arena/pit fighter, mostly in a Djinn region of Drooam, saboteur for many years during the war. Trapped in a world that is constant stimulus overload, learned the arts of meditation and ki focus to stay sane, surrogate older brother and best friend to Vidanya. Actor: James Marsters, maybe, or someone that can remind me of a younger Oded Fehr, circa The Mummy.
Brenn ir'Gadden: Human Brelish Noble, ranger, archer, rakish gentleman, jack of all trades. He has the battle skills of a ranger, and the charm of a Bard, and the money to make up for anything he lacks. Detect Magic on him makes him glow like a fire. Good ally, terrible enemy. Yaslyn and Van do not trust him, Khalid carouses with him occasionally. Actor: Ewan MacGregor.
Tonne: Brenn's Warforged bodyguard. Has many emplaced devices, dry sense of humor. Actor: Patrick Warburton (voice)
PCs!
Vidanya [lots of other names] ir'Rogachova, Vryloka Vengeance Paladin, Blood of Vol, former Knight of The Onyx Skull, in Karrnath, where her father is a Warlord (very high noble) known as The Blood Wolf. She struggled to contain her anger issues, seeks redemption for herself and her Order, and is on the trail of a conspiracy within the Blood of Vol. Actress: tough. She is stocky, powerfully built, intimidating, but also gorgeous when "cleaned up". A buffer Melissa Benoist might pull it off. If Rhonda Rousey could act, she might. Sophie Turner has the face and hair, pretty close, but is too waifish. She is built like Samantha Wright or Julia Vins.
Ocathim. Kobold Wizard, trained by a gold dragon who found his village while investigating a Prophecy Mark, discovered Ocathim's talent and nurtured it. Ocathim is an open book, a jovial guy, and is on a revenge quest, to find the red dragon who murdered his mentor and razed his village. Actor (voice) Liam O'Brian
Murphy: Dwarven Sorcerer, uses magic to grow, empower himself, and manifest the lightning granted to him by his dragon-touched heritage, and then fights with a warhammer. Smarter than average but no genius, Murphy is from a secluded Dwarven hold in Xen'drik, his clan having been kicked out of the Mror Holds centuries ago. He came to Khorvaire trying to see the world, and find out more about his people's history. His best friend is the half-elf Yaslyn, who he befriended as a Cyran mercenary during the war. Murphy is a fun guy, who tries to bring levity to any situation, believing that laughter, and ale, are the best cures for sorrow. Actor: Travis Willingham
Yaslyn: "Half-elf" Warlock. His mother was a Tairnadal elf, who left Aerenal and travelled to Xen'drik and met a half-drow, and they had a kid, Yaslyn. Yaslyn was raised by Tairnadal who were uncomfortable with him existence, and her teachers constantly reminded himthat he was different. Actor: Paul Bettany, if they can get past the drow dark skin thing. If not...idk
Campaign: There's this weird vampire dude named- HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!!! (A comedy cleverly disguised as an actual movie)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Musical Score: Toby fox
Starring Cast:
Crickety Bickety Bro's Got That Lickety. A gnome wizard thats evil because that's what's cool now.
Chatchka. The half-orc barbarian that really wants to kill elves. (For Gruumsh!)
Bibly Bonkers. The dragonborn fighter with sever brain damage.
Jormundür. The wood elf druid trying to take over Barovia for the druids and the great god Dave!
we are not liable for any urges to eat psychedelic pie, play as a druid in your next campaign, or scream "Oh my god, is that a sigma? SKIBIDI!!" as loud as you can.
Pretend your D&D campaign became the basis for the next D&D movie. Describe, in brief, your campaign world and its main plot. Then list your player's characters and who you'd pick to play them in the movie. If you want, you can also list who you'd want to score the feature, what the title would be and who directs it (try not to pick Joss Whedon).
Here is mine:
Title: The Rising
Campaign: The gods have been destroyed. A new, evil demigod has come to power in their absence and is enforcing a new tyrannical rule. In a desert kingdom called Ra-Theris (similar to Ancient Egypt), several heroes find out that they are connected to an ancient ancestral tribe, whose very blood was touched by the old gods. With the hope of finding special artifacts that will allow them to wield godly might, the heroes set out on a quest to protect their world from this new demigod, and to perhaps become the new gods themselves!
Director: Ridley Scott
Musical Score: Michael Giacchino, with additional tracks by Wardruna
Starring Cast:
"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
It is not a proper fantasy movie without Andy Serkis playing some kind of monster. I'd suggest Andy Serkis to play a Beholder!
What a fun Idea, Kinda reminds me of the Podcast I run.
Lets see, My favorite campaign I ran as a movie:
Title: Unwritten Rules
Plot: Reality is unwinding centered around a focal point in the southlands. The adventurers are sent to see if they can stop the source.
Gryph: Patton Oswalt (Human Illusionist)
Tavain: Joseph Gordon Levitt (Elven Rogue)
Douglas: Jason Clarke (Human Cleric)
Alynn: Laura Prepon (Half-Elf Ranger)
And Andy Serkis as Orcus. Cause why the **** not.
Check out my podcast! What, you had something better to do?
Have you ever heard something interesting and thought "How have they not made a movie about this yet?" Well, so have we.
https://soundcloud.com/howisthisnotamovieyet
Title: The Avarice Stone part 1 - Visions of the Past
I'm a player in this campaign, and it is still going on, hence the naming choice. As for plot; In search of power, a man discovers a conflict older than the kingdoms themselves. Together his group of adventurers must find a way to stop this war and it's ancient powers before they begin anew - or take the powers for themselves.
Hiei Anatolia: Brendan Frasier (human sorcerer) His family name was dragged through the dirt when it was discovered that his rich and famous parents were liars and cheats. Now he seeks power enough to prove to the world that he is better than his name.
Erebir Stormlight: Hugh Jackman (human fighter) Goes by Atlas. A sailor, hired by Hiei to find a Dragon that would bestow power to him. Gruff, doesn't say much. Has been searching for years for his family that was taken by slavers.
Zhogar Redscale: Andy Serkis (dragonborn rogue) Goes by Red. This scholar turned his studies in a direction that his clan did not like. So he resorted to sneaking and skulking to find out all of the clan's hidden knowledge. He was kicked out of his clan, but not after learning their powerful secrets. He and Atlas were hired by Hiei to guide him, to find a Dragon. Little do Hiei and Atlas know the real reason for Red coming...
Kethra Amakir: Kate Winslet (elven paladin) Originally tasked with watching the group to make sure they did not cause trouble in her small town, she eventually joined them. With a high distrust for magic and a mysterious past, Kethra often raises philosophical dilemmas for Hiei. Who's side are they on? What is good, and what is bad? Is there ever anything truly as binary as good and evil?
I had to keep the Andy Serkis bit going!
I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?
I started to flesh this out..and it devolved into "how can I cast all of Firefly into this story"..
There is just something hilarious to me in having Jane reborn as a foul mouthed dwarf cleric.
My campaign is currently in progress, and I have big plans for the future, also it would be difficult because one of my players is playing a homebrew bloodborne hunter, and they encountered dark souls gods in the beginning. So copyright non withstanding, here we go. I will just jump in to my future planned arc so I can skip the scattered stuff up till now. Also super brief summary.
Title: War of Attrition and Destruction
Campaign: The exarch of Bane has been gathering armies and recruiting powerful beasts and is trying to destabilize a continent and cause an all consuming war. During the final battle, the war has cused enough strife that it unintentionally awakens the Tarrasque, causing an apocalypse of the world. (And setting up for a lower magic, grittier campaign next time :D)
Director: Peter Jackson
Musical score: lord of the rings mixed with war of the worlds
Cast:
Nolan North: Claude Eichen: Wood Elf Hunter of Hunters
Ronda Rousey: Laura Corwynt: Human Cleric of Kord
Dante Basco: The voice of Ricochet: Warforged Gunslinger
Mathew Mercer: Bane
Mike Myers: Voice of Asharax Hammerscale, (not part of party, but general of allied army) Dragonborn Fighter-Barbarian
Oh no no no, the only one who can properly play a Beholder is Steve Buscemi ;)
Title: The Tempest Arcana, volume 1, The Mourning After.
World: Eberron. The campaign began in a tavern in Sharn, The City of Towers, on Rememberance Day, 4 years after The Day of Mourning, when the Nation of Cyre, once known as the Jewel of Galifar, was destroyed in an Eldritch conflagration known as The Mourning. The characters share stories of how they met, which we played as flash back adventures. Most of them involved witnessing the Mourning, as here is only 1 character who didn't witness it up close.
One flashback, and parts of the adventure after, used a heavily modified version of the Mark of Prophecy adventure from the back of the 4e Eberron Campaign Guide.
Those flashbacks done, we proceeded to the Remembrance ceremony in the Upper Menthis district of Sharn. The party was invited to join Brenn ir'Gadden in the balcony, with the fancy people, as 4 of them had saved his life on the Day of Mourning. Midway through the ceremony, a Mourning-infused demon and some "mourn-wolves" showed up and attacked, leading to a battle on the rooftops and balconies, and then a chase through, on, and around the roofs, stairways, alcoves, and foot bridges of Upper Menthis, and then to the party split up. One group continued to pursue what seemed to be the second person they had saved 4 years ago in the ruined tower, while the other backtracked the trail of the monsters who had attacked them, eventually leading to Aric Blacktree's townhome, in the lower level of the Menthis Plateau.
The pursuit team were aboard a "requisitioned" sky taxi, while Aric flew upon a "sky-sled", a blue disc that is essentially a speed and manueverabikty upgraded Tensor's Floating Disk. Soon, he was joined by a band of Goblin and hobgoblin mercenaries, mostly archers, who flanked the sky taxi and peppered it with arrows.
As the sky team fought and pursued their prey, who began flinging sickly orange beams of energy from his Aberrant Dragonmarked hand, the other team investigated the townhouse, unraveling two arcane lock traps, and then finally discovering a Giantish device, which Inigo recognized from an expedition he had led a year before into Giant ruins in Xen'Drik. The device had something to do with creating doors between worlds, and there had been evidence it had killed the Giants who had created it. Upstairs, Ocathim had discovered the pin board wall of a mad man. Drawings of the four who had been at the tower 4 years before, of the Prophecy Mark they'd found there, of other Prophecy marks, schematics, string pinned to the wall tieing one thing to another in a spiderweb of weirdness.
And many, many, books. But here was no time.
Cutting back and forth, we see the sky team taking sky sleds form goblins to better attack Aric, as the whole fight weaves through the tangle of towers, spires, chimneys, bridges, and other obstacles. Vidanya eventually catches up to Aric, stabs him in the leg, and catches a full chest Dragonmark blast. Both seem set to fall to probable death. Back in the town home. The other team struggles to decipher the codes, schematics, and arcane sigils of the device in time to stop it. Just as Vidanya and Aric are caught by the sky taxi, the device is shut down, and the Menthis Plateau is safe again.
Production team: Vin Diesel's company and Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Kieth Baker and Jose Whedon, maybe Neil Gaiman
Director: Brian Fuller
music: Cowboy Bebop meets Jessica Jones. Jazz and blues influence, touches of Noir, 30's Pulp, with a fantastical edge.
Cast:
First, the friendly NPCs, the first two of whom are occasional DMPC's
Inigo Amur, Halfling Ranger, Plane Walker, with Talenta mother, Cyran father, raised on the plains and in Metrol. Rides a dinosaur, throws a boomerang, fights in melee with a light glaive style weapon. Indiana Jones type relic hunter. Actor: Avan Jogia
Khalid Al Ghurab (more a DMPC than the others, started as a PC before I relaunched a lapsed campaign consisting of him, Ocathim, and Vidanya): Shadar-kai Monk, former slave arena/pit fighter, mostly in a Djinn region of Drooam, saboteur for many years during the war. Trapped in a world that is constant stimulus overload, learned the arts of meditation and ki focus to stay sane, surrogate older brother and best friend to Vidanya. Actor: James Marsters, maybe, or someone that can remind me of a younger Oded Fehr, circa The Mummy.
Brenn ir'Gadden: Human Brelish Noble, ranger, archer, rakish gentleman, jack of all trades. He has the battle skills of a ranger, and the charm of a Bard, and the money to make up for anything he lacks. Detect Magic on him makes him glow like a fire. Good ally, terrible enemy. Yaslyn and Van do not trust him, Khalid carouses with him occasionally. Actor: Ewan MacGregor.
Tonne: Brenn's Warforged bodyguard. Has many emplaced devices, dry sense of humor. Actor: Patrick Warburton (voice)
PCs!
Vidanya [lots of other names] ir'Rogachova, Vryloka Vengeance Paladin, Blood of Vol, former Knight of The Onyx Skull, in Karrnath, where her father is a Warlord (very high noble) known as The Blood Wolf. She struggled to contain her anger issues, seeks redemption for herself and her Order, and is on the trail of a conspiracy within the Blood of Vol. Actress: tough. She is stocky, powerfully built, intimidating, but also gorgeous when "cleaned up". A buffer Melissa Benoist might pull it off. If Rhonda Rousey could act, she might. Sophie Turner has the face and hair, pretty close, but is too waifish. She is built like Samantha Wright or Julia Vins.
Ocathim. Kobold Wizard, trained by a gold dragon who found his village while investigating a Prophecy Mark, discovered Ocathim's talent and nurtured it. Ocathim is an open book, a jovial guy, and is on a revenge quest, to find the red dragon who murdered his mentor and razed his village. Actor (voice) Liam O'Brian
Murphy: Dwarven Sorcerer, uses magic to grow, empower himself, and manifest the lightning granted to him by his dragon-touched heritage, and then fights with a warhammer. Smarter than average but no genius, Murphy is from a secluded Dwarven hold in Xen'drik, his clan having been kicked out of the Mror Holds centuries ago. He came to Khorvaire trying to see the world, and find out more about his people's history. His best friend is the half-elf Yaslyn, who he befriended as a Cyran mercenary during the war. Murphy is a fun guy, who tries to bring levity to any situation, believing that laughter, and ale, are the best cures for sorrow. Actor: Travis Willingham
Yaslyn: "Half-elf" Warlock. His mother was a Tairnadal elf, who left Aerenal and travelled to Xen'drik and met a half-drow, and they had a kid, Yaslyn. Yaslyn was raised by Tairnadal who were uncomfortable with him existence, and her teachers constantly reminded himthat he was different. Actor: Paul Bettany, if they can get past the drow dark skin thing. If not...idk
Tristan. Kalashtar Mystic later. Gotta sleep!
We do bones, motherf***ker!
Here is mine:
Title: We Wander Aimlessly!
Campaign: There's this weird vampire dude named- HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!!! (A comedy cleverly disguised as an actual movie)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Musical Score: Toby fox
Starring Cast:
we are not liable for any urges to eat psychedelic pie, play as a druid in your next campaign, or scream "Oh my god, is that a sigma? SKIBIDI!!" as loud as you can.
Audience before the movie: WOOHOO - D&D MOVIE!!!!
Audience after the movie: WTF did I just watch!